Quotes About Motivation

To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.

I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a "lack of balance between efforts and rewards.

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.

They found that 13 percent of people say they are "engaged" in their jobs—which means they are "enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and contribute to their organization in a positive manner.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

If there isn't a group doing what you believe needs to be done, set it up and email me at [email protected], and I'll add it to the book's website and to future editions of this book.

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities.

As a society, we are dreaming less and less.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Il malumore e la pigrizia sono in tutto simili, perché il malumore è una specie di pigrizia. A questa siamo portati per natura, e tuttavia se troviamo la forza per reagire ecco che il lavoro diviene agevole e l'attività un vero piacere.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

One must be something to be able to do something.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( Letter to A.F. Oeser , Nov. 9, 1768)

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.